A callous killer who murdered mother-of-two Charlotte Teeling by strangling and smothering her to death during sex fled to Coventry after the crime.

Richard Bailey concealed the body of Charlotte Teeling for more than a week in his bedroom where she was eventually discovered.

He had denied murder and manslaughter, claiming she had died as a result of a sex game gone horribly wrong.

Charlotte is thought to have been strangled by 41-year-old Bailey at a hostel on Cooksey Lane, Kingstanding sometime on Friday 23 February this year after she met him in the early hours of the morning and went back to his address.

Today at Birmingham Crown Court, Bailey has been found guilty of murder and will be sentenced on Wednesday.

On 26 February, West Mercia Police appealed for information after Charlotte failed to return to a women’s refuge in Worcester, following a weekend in Birmingham.

CCTV led officers to Birmingham city centre, showing Charlotte leaving a night club and wandering the streets on her own. She was later seen in a Select & Save on Hill Street, where Bailey spotted her and made his approach. This is believed to be the first time the two met.

A short time later, the pair are seen on CCTV making their way across town and getting in a taxi and heading towards Bailey’s address. This was the last time Charlotte was seen alive.

On 2 March, four days after she was reported missing, officers made a gruesome discovery, when Charlotte’s half naked body was found on Bailey’s bed but he was no-where to be seen.

In the early hours of the following morning, Bailey was arrested at a home of an ex-partner in Coventry, where he was attempting to re-kindle his romance upon hearing police were after him.

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A post mortem examination revealed that Charlotte died from a compression injury to her neck in line with that of suffocation or strangulation.

Bailey denied murdering Charlotte, stating that at her request, he strangled her during sex, but ‘not that hard’. He told officers it wasn’t until he noticed her body was limp that he realised she had died.

Failing to notify emergency services, Bailey continued to sleep in the room with Charlotte’s body for days and even used her bank cards to buy a Big Johns meal in the hours after her death.